Hay-rake.



PATENTED JUNE 16, 1908.

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HAY RAKE.

APPLICATION FILED 0012.7. w05.

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HAYRKE Specication of Letters Patent.

No. sonrie.

Patented June 16, 1908.

Application filed October 7, 1905. Serial No. 281,837.

' ings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to vimprovements in hay rakes" and my Objectis to facilitate the removal of the hay or other similar material from the rake head when it becomes desirous to do so.

Heretofore so far as l am aware the rake is irst loaded with hay and conveyed to the stacker, the rake head being stopped with its head in suitable proximity to the stacker head. The team is then backed whereby the rake is moved rearwardly for the purpose of disengaging the rake head ,from its load. In actual ractice it is found that the hay sticks to t e rake head during the rearward movement of the rake often times requiring some one to aid in holding the hay in order to allow the rearwardly moving head to become disengaged therefrom. 1

My object is to overcome this difliculty and to rovideA a device which maybe operated eit er automatically or by hand, whereby the load'of hay upon the rake head is given a forward movement simultaneously with the rearward movement of the machine, whereby the load is readily disengaged from 131116. drake head and thrown' upon the stacker Having brielly outlined my improved construction as well as the function it is ifitended to perform, l will proceed to describe the same in detail reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which is illustrated an embodiment thereof.

In this drawing, Figure 1 is a top plan A view of a rake equipped with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a sectionalelevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the parte in different relative positions.

The same reference characters indicate the i same parts in all the views.

Let A,the numeral 5 designate the f rainc work of the rake whose rear 'extremity is while driving to the stacker, in order to hold the hay above the ground.

The uriner. rail 13 of thel rake head is provided with a number of forward projections 14 having bearing sleeves 15 in which is ournaled a shalt l? provided with dependin pusher arms or teeth 1,8 which are connecte by a stifening bar 19'. A U-shaped yoke 2() is connected at 21a with ears formed on two oi the -pusher arms 18. To this yoke 20 is connected a rearwardly extending rod 21 which is pivotally connected with a lever 22 as shown at 23, its lower extremity bein adapted to automatically engage the ground when the rake is moved rearwardly. The lower 'armol this lever is iointed as shown at 24, theV two parte being normally held in alinement. The lower part of the lever is adapted to swing rearwardly during the forward movement of the machine, whi e during the movement of the machine in the opposite direction, the lower member will catch in the ground and throw the pusher head to the position shown in Fig. 2 whereby the hay 0r other material is discharged 'from the rake head during the rearward movement of the rake. i

From the foregoing descri tion the use and operation of my improve device will be readily understood. t n1'le collecting the hay thevrake head is in the position shown in Fig. 2 and the pusher head in the bosition shown in Fig. 3. As'soon as the loan of hay is collected upon the rale head, the head is tilted tothe position shown in Fig. 3 through the instrumentality of thehand lever 10 and the connecting rodsQlZ. lt may be stated that the rake is drawn hy two horses hitched to the whie treesAL as shown in Fig. 1, the rake head being in front of the horses when, the machine is in use. After the ralre head is tilted as aforesaid the team is driven to the stacker, the rake being stopped so tl the Arake head 7 is in suitable proximity to stacker head (not show-n).I The rake heady is again thrown to the position-shown in Fig.

2, and the rake is moved rearwardly by backingl the horses or team hitched thereto. During this rearward action the lower extremity of the lever 22, the said lev'er being .in the position shown in Fig.y 8, catches in the earth use oi t 1e pusher mechanism. This, howe'y ever, may be done if desired byarranging the lever 22 in such a manner as to give the desired levera e, and then operatin the same by hand. n this case the hinge lower eX- tremity of the lever will ybe omittedV and the lever would swing ireely above the surface of theearth, the pushing action being acquired through the instrumentality of the person in charge of the machine.

u In the construction shown in the drawing the pusher is only intended to act on the load carried by the rake'head, sufficiently to prevent the hay from sticking to the head and thus causing the load to be freed fromvthe head during the rearward movement of the machine.

v Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. The combination with a rake of the class described, of a.' usher device pivotally' mounted on the rake Ihead, a lever fulcrumed on the frame of the rake, and a suitable connection between the lever and the pusher whereby the movement of the lever actuates the pusher for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a rake of the class described, of a push".` head pivotally connected with the upper part of the rake head, a lever fulerurned on the rake and whose lower extremity is adapted to catch. in the surfaeeo the earth as the rake is moved rearwardly, and a suitable connection between the lever and the pusher head whereby as the lower extremity of the lever catches 'in the earth as aforesaid the automatically thrust forward y for the purusher head is pose set Jforth. l

In testimony whereof 'I afiix my slgnature in presence of two witnesses.

F. E. BONIFIEI'JD, n I J. K. KmvNEnY.v 

